Harvey Fierstein
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- 1954-06-06
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- Brooklyn, New York, USA
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But finding fulfillment was a much more tortuous road, as it is for us all.
Among the more moving parts of actor, cross-dresser, playwright, screenwriter, and voiceover artist Harvey Fierstein’s memoir are his remembrances of how people first greeted news of AIDS.
Not that it was a pandemic affecting the lives of millions of people, but that it came from queers who got what they deserved.
Not us but them.
I think the drive to tell these stories from an “us” perspective is what drove him, that we are people just like you. That there’s no reason to fear us and push us into society’s dark corners. That we also deserve respect.
His memoir shows why he indeed deserved the respect and love of his parents, and how he turned that sensibility into some of the most memorable theatre of his age.… (mehr)